Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature. In 2012 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow , which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dogs life.

Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1949, to a family with a workingclass background. She attended Catholic schools in Arlington, Massachusetts, and graduated from UMass Boston in 1971.

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